Wodehouse

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A structure used for storing firewood, logs, or other fuel materials
2. A shed or outbuilding designed to hold stacked wood and kindling supplies
3. A storage building where wood fuel is kept protected from weather and organized for use

Etymology: "Wodehouse" is a variant spelling of "Woodhouse," a surname of English origin. The name is a compound of "wood" and "house," and in medieval England it typically denoted a dwelling or building in or near a wood, or a man who lived in such a place. Surnames of this kind were often formed from a local feature, so the name marks where an early bearer lived rather than describing a trade or a distinctive personal trait. The spelling "Wodehouse" preserves an older form of the name in which the "o" in "wood" was written differently, and it is the form most associated with the English humorist P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), whose family used it. Because the name is mainly a surname, it carries no separate sense in ordinary English vocabulary, and its meaning is best understood as the literal combination of its two parts.